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Leader of Learning Key Stage 2 - Full-time - Special Needs Position

Foreland Fields School, Ramsgate

  • Ref:KCC886-7040-134L
  • Posted:16/11/2018
  • Pay:L9 - L13
  • Start Date:Apr 2019
  • App Close Date:30/11/2018 at 13:00
  • Interviews:13th December

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We have a vacancy for a Leader of Learning within our Key Stage 2 department. The successful candidate will become part of the Foreland Fields School Leadership Team.  

This is the perfect opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative classroom practitioner. Successful candidates will have either previous management experience or will be ready to make a move into leadership. They will contribute to the improvement and development of learning within the Junior department, and play a major role in shaping the future of our school.

Our ideal candidate will be a dynamic teacher with proven leadership and interpersonal skills, who aspires to excellence whilst also relishing a challenge. This post has a teaching commitment of three days a week. In addition to weekly PPA time the post holder will receive a further day and a half ‘non-contact' time to undertake Head of Departmental responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

  • be seeking an exciting new challenge in their career
  • be someone who wishes to join a hardworking and dedicated staff team
  • be a committed and enthusiastic teacher with experience of teaching pupils with high levels of learning difficulty in a special school setting
  • have knowledge and experience of teaching students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
  • have exceptional interpersonal skills and experience of managing people and / or projects
  • be familiar with, or have experience of, multi-disciplinary working across a range of statutory and voluntary agencies
  • have had some experience of strategic planning and decision making

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed to meet staff and pupils and to find out more about the nature of the work involved. To arrange an informal visit, candidates should contact the PA to the Headteacher on Tel: 01843 863891. 

Information about the school together with all relevant application documents are available to download from the ‘Attachments’ section below. To ensure equity to all candidates, it is our policy that applications will ONLY be accepted on a completed KCC Teaching Staff application form. 

Foreland Fields School is totally committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure application to the Criminal Records Bureau, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.

 

Information about the school

Foreland Fields School is a Day Special School for pupils with Profound, Severe and Complex Needs (PSCN), many of whom also have Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

We provide for 200+ pupils aged 3-19 in five departments, Nursery, Infants, Juniors (KS2) Secondary (KS3) and KS4/6th Form. In addition, we have satellite classes at Garlinge Primary School, Hartsdown Academy and East Kent College.

We encourage all of our employees to further their career development and we respect initiative and ambition. We are committed to performance management, staff training and coaching. The successful candidate will embrace the special ethos of the School, and the role will provide an opportunity to take Foreland Fields School into this next exciting phase and beyond.

Foreland Fields School is committed to the safeguarding and well-being of children therefore all successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and references. We will also complete an online search on all shortlisted candidates.

Teaching Assistants working hours are from 8.30am until 3pm, apart from Thursdays where the finish time is 2.45pm on alternate weeks and 4.45pm on other weeks to accommodate essential training.

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Documents

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.